About the Role
JKR is seeking a Senior Digital Designer to join their London studio. This role involves owning and guiding projects from discovery to delivery, crafting strategically smart and distinctive user experiences that are both user-first and brand-led. You will also play a key role in shaping the digital team, mentoring others, and inspiring clients.
Responsibilities
- Balance user needs with brand storytelling.
- Design distinctive UI systems that translate brand identities into digital interfaces, bringing them to life with interaction, motion, and detail.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with strategists, creatives, developers, and clients to deliver seamless, innovative outcomes.
- Shape experiences end-to-end: from research, audits, personas, and user journeys through to wireframes, prototypes, and final UI design.
- Inspire and mentor designers, sharing knowledge and elevating the team’s digital craft.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Digital Designer (agency or product background) with a strong portfolio spanning multiple platforms demonstrating brand thinking and crafted executions.
- Clearly show discovery phases and how they informed the digital brand direction.
- A sharp eye for UI craft: distinctive digital design, interaction, design systems, templating, and atomic design.
- Comfort with Figma, FigJam, Miro and other collaboration tools.
- Experience with motion and animation tools (e.g. After Effects, Jitter) to enhance user experiences.
- A track record of mentoring, presenting, and influencing clients and colleagues with confidence and clarity.
- Demonstrate experience designing brand-led digital experiences end to end.
- Showcase process from discovery and strategy through to execution and delivery.
Skills
- Brand Thinking
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Interaction Design
- Motion Design
- Design Systems
- Atomic Design
- Figma
- FigJam
- Miro
- After Effects
- Jitter
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working policy, minimum 2 days pw in the studio
- 2 weeks work from anywhere, by agreement with line manager
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Bupa Healthcare, including dental option
- Income protection & life insurance
- Classpass credits
- Group personal pension
- 25 days holiday + time given at Christmas and New Year
- Summer Fridays x 2
- Birthday day off
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced parental leave policies
- Referral scheme for new hires
About the Company
- Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) is a branding business, founded in 1990 and proudly independent.
- They build and deliver brands across the entire consumer experience.
- Their mission is to inspire brands and people to be their true selves, to be brave, tenacious, and above all, themselves.
- They believe that's the only way to truly be distinctive, everywhere.
- JKR believes that brands have the power to create distinctive digital impact.
- Their Digital design capability designs experiences that are both user-first and brand-led, from start-ups to global giants.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we live in and the audiences we create for.
